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Vermont Travel Guide

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VERMONT comes closer than any New England state to realising the quintessential
image of small-town Yankee America, with its white churches and red
barns, covered bridges and clapboard houses, snowy woods and maple
syrup. No city manages a population of more than forty thousand (only
Burlington comes close) and the chief tourist attraction is Ben and
Jerry's ice-cream factory in Waterbury. Though rural, the landscape
is not all that agricultural, as much is covered by mountainous forests
(the state's name comes from the French vert mont , or green mountain).
The people who choose to live here are a mix of hippies and diehard
conservatives working together to preserve their environment and
lamenting the arrival of yet more ski resorts. One striking feature
of Vermont is the absence of billboards, but the cutesy "country
stores" which seem to grace every other crossroads can become
tedious.

This was the last area of New England to be settled, early in the eighteenth
century, with French explorers working their way down from Canada, and American
colonists beginning to spread north. Even as that rivalry died down, another
developed between settlers from New Hampshire and those from New York. The
wealthy New York merchants who built fine homes along the Connecticut River
valley thought of themselves as the "River Gods," but the hardy settlers
of the lakes and mountains to the west had little time for their patrician
ways. Their leader, the now-legendary Ethan Allen , formed his Green Mountain
Boys in 1770, proclaiming that "the gods of the hills are not the gods
of the valley." During the Revolutionary War, this all-but-autonomous
force captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British and helped to win the decisive
Battle of Bennington. By 1777, Vermont was an independent republic, with the
first constitution in the world explicitly forbidding slavery and granting
universal (male) suffrage, but once its boundaries with New York were agreed
on, it joined the Union in 1791. Curiously, the two seminal figures of the
Mormon religion were both born in Vermont shortly thereafter - Joseph Smith
in 1805, and his lieutenant and successor Brigham Young in 1801.

With the occasional exception, such as the extraordinary assortment of Americana
at the Shelburne Museum near Burlington, there are few specific goals for tourists.
Visitors come in great numbers during two well-defined seasons: to see the
fall foliage in the first two weeks of October, and to ski in the depths of
winter, when the resorts of Killington , and Stowe further north (home of The
Sound of Music 's Trapp family), spring into life. For the rest of the year,
you might just as well explore any of the state's minor roads that take your
fancy, confident that some picturesque village will be around the next corner.
There are far too many to list; we've had to leave out such prime examples
as Peru, Grafton and Middlebury . Further information can be picked up from
the official Welcome Center on each interstate as it enters Vermont.